I said to myself straight away: 'It's Algiers, I need this role.' It was too close to what was in my heart.
— Lyna Khoudri
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Don't you want us to talk about people who bring light, instead?.
As an actress, in the theater even more than in the cinema, in fact, I have always had a rather expressive way of acting. I love shouting out a text, declaiming it, giving it its poetic and political force. Here, indeed, my acting is more subdued, and that's what interested me .
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